Solved Parse as time period

[Weber]

Is this not supported? I seem to be completely unable to store a duration in a variable unless I state that duration explicitly in the skript;

command /duration <string>:
    trigger:
        set {_old} to now
        wait 5 seconds
        set {_time} to arg 1 parsed as time period
        message "%difference between {_time} and difference between {_old} and now%"

Try this with 3 seconds as your first argument; It should return "2 seconds"
I've also attempted to parse it as duration and timeperiod
It seems that it's unsupported, but I figured I'd check here to see if it's simply me not knowing about a syntax or something.

For reference, the following skript does work as expected, which confirms that variables can definitely store durations:

command /durationfixed:
    trigger:
        set {_old} to now
        wait 5 seconds
        set {_time} to 3 seconds
        message "%difference between {_time} and difference between {_old} and now%"

Would greatly appreciate any help!

 

[ShaneBee]

Hey, I MAY be wrong, but i don't think you can use <string> in this case
What are you typing after /duration when you run the command?
What is the error you are getting?

Spoiler: ARG TYPES

 

[Mr_Simba]

Try parsing it as a 'timespan'.

Also, what errors are you getting?

 

[TPGamesNL]

This works:

command /duration <int>:
    trigger:
        set {_old} to now
        wait 5 seconds
        set {_time} to "%arg-1% seconds" parsed as timespan
        message "%difference between {_time} and difference between {_old} and now%"

but you have to wait 5 seconds for it, and if you don't want that you can just use this easier script:

command /duration <int>:
    trigger:
        set {_old} to 5 seconds
        set {_time} to "%arg-1% seconds" parsed as timespan
        message "%difference between {_time} and {_old}%"